How much more blatant can it be?

What is going on! The two big headlines today are that antidepressant drugs are not effective for most people:

The researchers found that compared with placebo, these new-generation antidepressant medications did not yield clinically significant improvements in depression in patients who initially had moderate or even very severe depression. The study found that significant benefits occurred only in the most severely depressed patients.

And that Pfizer’s drug ads for Lipitor lead to “to misimpressions.” Will this have any effect on the drug companies? I doubt it. If a 4 billion dollar settlement against Vioxx, where the drug company was never found guilty of anything, did not ruffle the feathers or hurt the bottom-line, what will?

I can just hear the mantra, “Pill for every ill. Pill for every ill. Pill for every ill,” being chanted over and over again by people who do not wish to confront their own lifestyle issues and take control of their life.

The headlines are everywhere. Two weeks ago, the above-the-fold full color headline on USA Today was screaming of the dangers of medications.

We all know that drugs have side effects. Most of us are willing to live with them. The pain of changing our life is not worth the cost of possibly loosing it to a drug reaction.

That is tragic.